Film reviews are written by journalists, with the intention of communicating the review to the general public, describing the plot, characters, cast, and director. The goal of a film review is to help the reader assess whether or not they want to watch the movie. Film reviews are published around the weeks and months when the film is released. A film review is a primary source that tells you what thoughts were around the time that the film was released.
Search the full text of the New York Times (1851 - 2021). View results as page images.
Search the full text of the Los Angeles Times (1881 - 2001). View results as page images.
Includes content from the Chicago Defender between 1909 and 1975.
This collection contains over 1 million issues comprising over 21.5 million pages and over 53 million articles. The California Digital Newspaper Collection is a project of the Center for Bibliographical Studies and Research (CBSR) at the University of California, Riverside.
Scholarly criticism of a film analyzes the plot, characters, and cinematic techniques. Criticism compares the film with other films in the genre, or might apply a specific theory to the film. Criticism often considers the historical and cultural significance of the film with the goal of advancing scholarly communication. While reviews are published around the time of release, scholarly criticism could be published years or decades after the release of the film.
Film & Television Literature Index is designed for use by film scholars, college students, and general viewers. Subject coverage includes film & television theory, preservation & restoration, writing, production, cinematography, technical aspects, and reviews. From EBSCO.
Film & Television Literature Index is designed for use by film scholars, college students, and general viewers. Subject coverage includes film & television theory, preservation & restoration, writing, production, cinematography, technical aspects, and reviews. From EBSCO.
Full-text of hundreds of journals in the humanities, arts, and social sciences from scholarly publishers, mostly university presses. Oxy subscribes to the Standard Collection.
Full-text archive of high-impact academic journals in many disciplines. The archive does NOT include recent issues (generally begins with the first journal issue and stops 3 to 5 years ago). Browse journals by discipline or by title, and search articles by keyword.
Includes all the ProQuest databases that Oxy subscribes to. On the landing page, select Dissertations & Theses to only search for those items.
Art Databases includes Art Full Text and Art Index Retrospective, covering an array of publications about artists, contemporary art, exhibition reviews and theory and criticism. From EBSCO.
The Film Scripts Online Series contains over 1,100 scripts and makes available, for the first time, accurate and authorized versions of copyrighted screenplays. Now film scholars can compare the writer’s vision with the producer’s and director’s interpretations from page to screen. Most scripts in the series have never been published before and are available nowhere else. Alexander Street developed the collection through arrangements with Warner Bros., Sony, RKO, MGM, and other major film studios; rights holders such as Faber & Faber, Newmarket Press, Penguin Putnam, StudioCanal, and Vintage Anchor; and the writers themselves, including Paul Schrader, Lawrence Kasdan, Gus Van Sant, Neil LaBute, Oliver Stone, and many others.
An archival research resource containing the key periodicals for studying the history of the film and entertainment industries, from the era of vaudeville and silent movies through to the 21st century (covers 1880-2015).
Streaming video service which provides access to educational titles, including award-winning documentaries, training films and theatrical releases.
These open access journals (and others) may not be indexed in major article databases:
Canadian Journal of Media Studies
Mediascape: UCLA's Journal of Cinema and Media Studies
These open access journals (and others) may not be indexed in major article databases:
Canadian Journal of Media Studies
Mediascape: UCLA's Journal of Cinema and Media Studies
A portal to research databases provided by EBSCO. Oxy access includes Academic Search Elite, Business Source Elite, Newspaper Source, EBSCO Animals, Music Index, Sport Discus, America: History and Life, Historical Abstracts, and more. Databases can be searched simultaneously or independently.
Index to scholarly materials published worldwide in literature, languages, linguistics, and folklore. From EBSCO.